@googlyfund.bsky.social
We support social cricket in the UK and Ireland with small grants to help start or support friendly teams. Get in touch via info@googlyfund.co.uk
This is a beautiful piece on parents and children playing cricket together from @danielgallan.bsky.social and we’d add that friendly cricket is brilliant at allowing that to happen www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
Daniel Gallan (@danielgallan.bsky.social)
Journalist and university lecturer specialising in history and politics of sport.
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Sounds like fantastic things happening with women’s cricket in Oswestry theguardian.com/sport/2026/may… top piece by Tanya Aldred
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Park cricket. The conditions under foot are a bit rough but the sun is shining above and the game is on for one of our original grant recipients the ODB CC - did anyone else get a game on this weekend?
A daily thread on things we’ve funded recently in the run up to the start of a new season… At Edinburgh South CC our small grant will buy team gloves, pads and helmets so that youngsters don’t have to buy their own as they have a go at hardball cricket www.edinburghsouthcc.org/newsstory/ne... 🏴🏏♥️
Edinburgh South Cricket Club News story
Edinburgh based Cricket Club catering for players of all abilities and commitments. Mainly playing on Saturdays, with some midweek games. Women's section formed in 2017.
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A week to go for some Sunday friendly teams. Who needs a small grant for a gazebo, a scorers’ table or a portable scoreboard? Get in touch if we can help and please help spread the word about us by sharing
If this sunny Saturday afternoon weather isn’t getting you in the mood for the friendly cricket season then we can’t help you. If you need a small grant to help you get ready for that season though… we probably can www.googlyfund.co.uk
Sunday cricket just three or four weeks away now (anyone starting earlier than Easter/April??) Have a look at our website and get in touch if we can help you with a small grant towards getting any friendly games on googlyfund.co.uk Please share in your🏏 networks
With a month to go until Easter, get your bids in to the Googly Fund for small grants for friendly cricket. Could be for help with your: -Ground🚜 -Kit🏏 -Teas🫖 -Advertising🤳 We’ll fund anything that helps get more people playing friendly forms of the game in the UK & Ireland
March has arrived, the sun is out and you can almost taste the orange squash the cricket season is so close now. If you’re putting the finishing touches to your team’s plans for the year, don’t forget that the Googly Fund can help with small grants towards anything friendly cricket related…
Nice Guardian piece on the Windrush Cricket project documenting all the British Caribbean cricket clubs, lots of which sat outside official league structures www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Windrush and the rise of wandering Caribbean cricket clubs that fuelled talent in English game
Their history was in danger of being lost but a new book and project has put together an archive documenting such vibrant contributions to the game
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Excuse the expletives but this is a tremendous piece on the importance of friendly cricket in Australia and England prosefordaphne.substack.com/p/an-ode-to-...
An Ode to Cricket Clubs
My conspiracy theory is that the male loneliness epidemic was promoted by Big Podcast™️ to sell snake oil supplements.
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This will be a great evening full of great stories and great cricket-loving people. Get along if you can
The Nightwatchman@nightwatchmanxi.bsky.social · 10mo agoJoin us at The Jolly Gardeners pub in Vauxhall, London, on Monday, November 10, for a fun, FREE event as we launch Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics with @geofflemon.bsky.social and @collinsadam.bsky.social Book now: eventbrite.com/e/bedtime-ta...
Here’s the recording of our latest webinar panel - The Men’s Ashes and the Future of Test Cricket. Tim Wigmore and @jarrodkimber.bsky.social covered a LOT of ground - and the event was expertly chaired by @russinthezone.bsky.social 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtt6...
Panel: The Men’s Ashes and the Future of Test Cricket
YouTube video by Cricket Research Network
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Lovely piece of writing on the friendly cricket scene in the Meon Valley yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/f...
For the Love of the Game Reprised
When the general state of the health of cricket in this country is debated one of the most emotive and cherished aspects of the game that is often highlighted is that of Sunday / village cricket an…
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Googly Fund co-founder Dan Forman will be on the Surrey YouTube stream at tea talking about the joy of friendly cricket with @norcrosscricket.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/f2Ijq8T...
🔴 LIVE: Surrey v Essex | DAY TWO | Rothesay County Championship
YouTube video by Surrey County Cricket Club
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Anyone interested in a collector’s item? This lovely old roller has been superseded after many, many years of loyal service. If anyone knows of a resting home for it then please let me know 🙏🙏
We’re extending the deadline for these special £1,000 grants until the *end of April*. Get in touch if you have any questions about them. And please share, thanks
@googlyfund.bsky.social · 2y ago*Grants of up to £1,000 available to cricket clubs* This year we are expanding our funding, offering three special grants of up to £1,000 to promote friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland... 🏏🧵
Two weeks to get your applications in for these grants. Please share in your networks
@googlyfund.bsky.social · 2y ago*Grants of up to £1,000 available to cricket clubs* This year we are expanding our funding, offering three special grants of up to £1,000 to promote friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland... 🏏🧵
It mat be mid March but the cricketers of Bekonscot Village are already out playing 😃
*Grants of up to £1,000 available to cricket clubs* This year we are expanding our funding, offering three special grants of up to £1,000 to promote friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland... 🏏🧵
Are you a primary school that would like to put together a parent cricket team this summer, to encourage social networks? Or a cricket club that would like to attract new adult players? Generous funding available to help make it happen.
@googlyfund.bsky.social · 2y ago*Grants of up to £1,000 available to cricket clubs* This year we are expanding our funding, offering three special grants of up to £1,000 to promote adult friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland...
*Grants of up to £1,000 available to cricket clubs* This year we are expanding our funding, offering three special grants of up to £1,000 to promote adult friendly cricket in the UK and Ireland...
A massive day of friendly cricket in Melbourne today and a hugely important story from @rafnicholson.bsky.social here. We hope it went well www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
‘We are making history’: Afghanistan women’s cricket team offer hope for future
Pressure is building on the ICC as a team take to the field in Melbourne on Thursday to play under the Afghanistan banner
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